Shade-holder.



A. C. BECKER.

SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 12. 1915.

1,162,400. V Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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ADOLPH G. BECKER, OF OAKVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY MFG. 00.,

OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

SHADE-HOLDER.

Application filed August 12, 1915.

T0 (ZZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, AooLPI-I C. Rnonnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakville, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shade-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a side View of a shade holder constructed in accordance with my invention, and shown as attached to an incandescent lamp socket. Fig. 2 an underside view of the shade holder, removed. Fig. 3 a transverse sectional view f the shade holder shown as applied to an incandescent lamp socket. Fig. 4 a sectional view on the line a7) of Fig. 1, looking onto the top of the shade holder. Fig. 5 a transverse sectional view of the shade holder illustrating a. modified form of my invention.

This invention relates to an improvement in shade holders and particularly for holders adapted to be connected with sockets of incandescent electric lights for supporting a shade or globe in connection ther with, the object being to provide means for so interlocking the shade holder with the socket that they are not liable to become accidentally separated by vibration or otherwise; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a shade holder ring 2 of substantially usual construction provided, as herein shown, with screws 3 to engage with the flange of a globe, not shown. In the top of the holder is a central opening 4- from the edge of which extends an inwardly projecting collar 5 which is usually internally threaded to engage with threads 6 on the neck 7 of an incandescent lamp socket. At one side of the opening 4 I mount a friction bar 8 the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

Serial No. 45,129.

central portion of which slightly intersects the opening 4. This bar may be secured to the ring in any desired manner. As herein shown, however, the ends 9, 10, are turned inward and pass through perforations formed for them in the ring, and preferably these ends 9 and 10 will be turned inward as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, so as to have a bearing against the outer surface ofthe collar which furnishes a bearing for the friction rod. As the ring is screwed onto the socket, this portion of the friction rod which projects into the opening will ride over the screw threads on the socket, and when the ring is turned into place, will have a bearing gainst one side of the socket with sufficient friction to prevent the ring from accidentally turning. lit is evident, and as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, that the threads on the collar might be omitted and the device used with a socket having an annular rib 11 over which the friction rod will spring when the shade holder is forced onto the end of the socket.

I claim l. A shade holder comprising a ring hav ing a central opening and a wire bar secured in the top of the ring at one side of the said opening, the central portion of the bar intersecting said opening.

2. A shade holder comprising a ring provided with an inwardly extended threaded collar, and a wire friction bar secured in the top of the said ring at one side of said opening, the central portion of the bar intersecting the opening through the collar.

8. A shade holder comprising a ring formed with a central opening and with an inwardly projecting collar, said ring formed with perforations adjacent to the opening through the collar, and a friction bar the ends of which extend through said perforations, whereby a portion of the bar intersects the opening through the collar, the ends of the said bar turned inward to a bearing against the outer surface of said collar.

ADOLPH C. BECKER.

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